Students at Yale, Harvard and University of Mary Washington made the news last week when they were arrested during non-violent protests. What burning social justice issue were these students protesting? War? Student fees? Minimum wage? No, these students were protesting the fact that their universities are refusing to #divest from fossil fuels.

The advent of fossil fuels changed the world profoundly (giving us everything from plastics and automobiles to global warming); the inevitable and rapidly approaching end of the oil-coal-and-gas era will likewise …

Campuses around the world are joining together in the first ever Global Divestment Day. Students are calling on their campus administrators to drop dirty energy companies like those in Canada’s tar sands. Dozens of events are planned across Canada and hundreds around …